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So I'll be talking about the success of my campus, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, UMBC, in educating students of all types, across the arts and humanities and the science and
engineering
areas.
And what makes the story especially unique is that we have learned how to help African-American students, Latino students, students from low-income backgrounds, to become some of the best in the world in science and
engineering.
And the question is this: How is it that now we lead the country in producing African-Americans who go on to complete Ph.D.'s in science and
engineering
and M.D./Ph.D.'s?
You see, most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and
engineering.
If you don't know it, while 20 percent of blacks and Hispanics who begin with a major in science and
engineering
will actually graduate in science and engineering, only 32 percent of whites who begin with majors in those areas actually succeed and graduate in those areas, and only 42 percent of Asian-Americans.
But the other part has to do with the culture of science and
engineering
on our campuses.
Whether you know it or not, large numbers of students with high SAT's and large numbers of A.P. credits who go to the most prestigious universities in our country begin in pre-med or pre-engineering and engineering, and they end up changing their majors.
In fact, we call first year science and engineering, typically around America, weed-out courses or barrier courses.
How many of you in this audience know somebody who started off in pre-med or
engineering
and changed their major within a year or two?
And as a result of those high expectations, we began to find students we wanted to work with to see what could we do to help them, not simply to survive in science and engineering, but to become the very best, to excel.
You all know that so often in science and
engineering
we tend to think cutthroat.
It means that now, not just in science and engineering, we now have programs in the arts, in the humanities, in the social sciences, in teacher education, even particularly for women in I.T.
And I went to see a good friend that was
engineering
forests to prepare a project for us, and we started.
It shouldn't be a set of experts
engineering
the way the world works.
I also had to check or invent an
engineering
design which would survive outdoors, and I was using regular, normal PCs, so I needed different climates, for which India is also great, because we have very cold, very hot, and so on.
We've been
engineering
them with an engineer named Eric Karsh who works with me on it, and we've been doing this new work because there are new wood products out there for us to use, and we call them mass timber panels.
The
engineering
is, truthfully, the easy part of this.
But only four years after it was built, Gustave Eiffel was building the Eiffel Tower, and as he built the Eiffel Tower, he changed the skylines of the cities of the world, changed and created a competition between places like New York City and Chicago, where developers started building bigger and bigger buildings and pushing the envelope up higher and higher with better and better
engineering.
It's what we at MIT call safety
engineering.
No. That's was precisely the safety
engineering
that ensured the success of the mission, and that is precisely the strategy I think we should take with AGI.
This comes down to some fine
engineering.
French engineer Michel Virlogeux and British architect Lord Foster collaborated together to produce something which is a really spectacular synergy of architecture and
engineering.
This is an instrument that our engineers are actually prototyping right now in the lab, and this instrument is going to give us the
engineering
controls that we're going to require in order to link 10 or more organ chips together.
How do you explain drawings and
engineering
to people who are neither able to read nor write?
So 100 years ago, hormones had just been discovered, and people hoped that hormone treatments were going to cure aging and disease, and now instead we set our hopes on stem cells, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.
Pournima was 18 years old when she was in a car accident where she lost her leg, and she traveled 12 hours by train to come to the clinic to be fit with a knee, and while all of the amputees who wear our knees affect us as the designers, she's particularly meaningful to me as an engineer and as a woman, because she was in school, she had just started school to study
engineering.
But we know a little bit about risk mitigation and a little bit about financial engineering, and so we started thinking, what could we do?
They've got really weird payoff structures and all that, but let's throw everything we know about financial
engineering
at them.
So again, financial
engineering
was helpful here.
But recently, we've become more and more interested in projects where art and technology intersect, from creating sight-specific audio and video installation to
engineering
interactive concerts.
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